Name meaning & stats
Jed
Jed. 8,694 US babies since 1940, peak 1978.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1978
8,694 US babies were named Jed between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Jed (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 91% of the family
- Jed 91%
- Jedd 9%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1978)